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1) Angel train
Author
Series
Wagon wheel series volume 4
Publisher
B&H Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees the postings soliciting "eligible women" to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter and several painful secrets, she has nothing to lose. So she joins forty-three other women and two pious reverends on the dangerous 2,000-mile journey west. None of them are prepared for the hardships they face on the trek through the high plains, mountains, and deserts,...
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Series
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1873, a wagon train of immigrants sets off from Missouri for the Montana Territory. Leading them is wagon master Jamie Ian MacCallister, a giant of a man who swears he can get them there by Christmas. The journey is plagued by brutal storms and rugged terrain, outlaws and hostile Indians. Just when things look nearly hopeless, two unlikely saviors arrive: an old mountain man known as Preacher and legendary frontiersman Smoke Jensen....
Author
Series
Leah's garden volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Larkspur Nielsen is ready for a change. Her parents have passed on, and her older brother is successfully running the family business. She bristles at the small-mindedness that permeates life in her small Ohio community, and she sees little chance of a satisfying future there. She has a little money saved, and after turning the tables on a crooked gambler who had fleeced several locals, including her younger brother, she can stake a new start for...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
Lily Starr rides like an angel and she's a crack shot. She's determined to shepherd a helpless group of outcasts from Texas to Wyoming by Christmas, including a pregnant woman whose blessed event is drawing near. So, encountering handsome Thorpe Turlow along the dangerous trail is a welcome unexpected gift, for he's as formidable as he is reserved. Besides, understanding this gentle, secretly wounded man is another challenge Lily isn't about to resist....
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English
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Agreeing to lead the Spencer family down the infamous Nightmare Trail--a killing ground for the Hardcastles, an Arkansas Ozark clan who don't allow trespassers on their road unless they pay in blood, Duff MacCallister must shoot first and fast when they come face-to-face with these bad men.
10) Journeying
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
A Rio Kid western volume 33
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
175 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
14) Westward hearts
Author
Series
Homeward on the Oregon Trail volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
340 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kentucky, 1854. Elizabeth has mourned her husband's death for three years, but now she feels ready to fulfill the dream they had shared: to take their two children west. At Kansas City, they join a substantial wagon train. Elizabeth soon finds herself being drawn to the group's handsome guide, Eli Kincade.
Author
Series
Homeward on the Oregon Trail volume 2
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Desperate circumstances bring out the best and worst of the travelers, including Will Bramford, the wealthy widower who is pursuing Elizabeth, and Eli Kincade, the independent and solitary guide who has stolen Elizabeth's heart.
16) Wind River
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
After buffalo hunter and former army scout Cole Tyler arrives in Wind River, a primitive outpost in the wild Wyoming Territory, he is unwittingly drawn into taking the unwelcome and dangerous job of town marshal. Original. -- Goodreads.com
17) Sunset embrace
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Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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"No woman on the trek to Texas was more mysterious than Lydia Langston. No man was more stubborn than Ross Coleman ... and both were running from the past. Lydia had vowed no man would ever take away her pride, while Ross Coleman stayed true to his wife, who had died in childbirth, the woman who had given him his son. Yet Lydia and Ross would find themselves together, fighting the same enemy and the same dangerous emotions building inside them ......
18) The lady's maid
Author
Series
Prairie dreams volume 1
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
318 pages : portraits ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Elise Finster and her British mistress, Lady Anne, are searching for the new but missing earl of Stoneford. Determined to follow David Stone's somewhat cold trail leading to Oregon, the greenhorns secure livestock and supplies to join a wagon train. Will the ladies succeed in their quest or succumb to the malfeasance of the mysterious man dogging their heels?
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Language
English
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Wagon trains heading west were forced to defend themselves against Indians, cope with injuries and illness, and struggle to find food. The group of easterners Rock Bannon was scouting for faced another problem. They were being deceived. When he warned them to remain on the Humboldt Trail, Sharon Crockett and the others refused to listen. Mort Harper, a stranger riding a beautiful black mare, had dazzled them with his charm and good looks. The southern...
20) Finding promise
Author
Series
The McBride brothers volume 2
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"She may be an heiress, but Parker Promise Sinclair cares more about living an adventurous life than snaring a suitable husband. So it's no surprise when she joins a Wyoming wagon train--only to survive a massacre that leaves her with no memory, a target on her back--and her abiding faith tested by the only man who can possibly protect her. His gunfighting skills and trail savvy have saved U.S. Marshal Jake McBride more times than he can count. And...
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